Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg rejected an industry-wide slowdown in artificial-intelligence development, arguing that competition, user demand, liability and trust give companies incentives to build safe, aligned systems. LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman likewise defended continued frontier AI research for potential biosecurity, cybersecurity and economic benefits, while urging labs to manage recursive self-improvement. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have called for development to be paced, although Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang supports continued progress with safety measures. Zuckerberg cited Meta's decision to delay its Muse AI agent by months over safety and security concerns as evidence that companies can pause products independently.